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Rohit Sharma said they will have no “additional advantage” of playing their IPL matches in the city’s three grounds as many in the “relatively new team” have not played a single game here in last two years.
The IPL-15 starts at the Wankhede Stadium with a clash between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
“I hope you saw the auction, relatively new team, lot of new guys have come into the team, so I don’t believe in added advantage because these guys, like lot of the guys 70 (or) 80 percent of the squad has not played in Bombay before,” Rohit said at a virtual press conference.
“We all are playing in Bombay after two years, we have not played a single game in Mumbai, in fact the other franchises have played in Bombay last year, we didn’t get to play, so no advantage,” Rohit added.
Rohit likewise said that batter Suryakumar is as yet going through recovery at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru and would join the team subsequent to getting clearance.
“Surya is at NCA at the moment, he is recovering well, he will be here soon and I can’t give you his availability now, whether he will be available for first game or not, but we are trying to get him as soon as possible, once we have the clearance from the NCA,” said Rohit.
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